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Monthly Archives: September, 2020

A bold movement’s journey to justice: Next step — OUST TRUMP!

  This year has been a time of great sorrow but also of magnificent rebellion. Voters flocked to the polls in the earliest primaries —...

Housing relief now — and ongoing!

  On September 1, in the midst of the pandemic, the limited federal eviction moratorium ended, setting millions of renters and mortgage-payers up for losing...

AOC highlights need for systemic change at Democratic National Convention

“Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world. “In fidelity and ...

‘This is the revolution’

In this edition of the People’s Tribune we continue to highlight voices calling for unity against a dangerous police state, for Black ...

Women leading the fight for change

New leaders, especially women, are stepping forward to challenge the status quo in this country, using the electoral arena to fight ...

Women’s Suffrage Celebration: 100 Years Later

Celebrations are taking place today because valiant and courageous women secured women’s right to vote via the 19th ...

Martin Luther King’s granddaughter: We will fulfill his dream

“The worst economic crisis since the great depression, more extreme weather than ever . . but great challenges produce great ...

Organizing collectively to stop Chicago evictions

The People’s Tribune’s Bob Lee interviewed Antonio Gutierrez, one of the cofounders of Chicago’s Autonomous Tenants Union (ATU) and a tenant ...

Parkland survivor addresses gun violence and police violence

“I am one of the millions of young black women who make up the backbone of the American progressive movement . . . my journey ...

Homes not Zones in Hollywood, CA

Housing organizer General Dogon criticizes Los Angeles’ policy of criminalizing homelessness.

A failing nation piles debt on backs of poor

Across the country more than two-thirds of renters have student debt, Americans owing over $1.6 trillion. Politicians answer this ...

Freedom or police state: Unity is key

America is facing a stark choice right now—a choice between light and darkness, between a true democracy and dictatorship. This ...

Jacob Blake’s sister: ‘I want change!’

Jacob Blake was shot 7 times in the back by Kenosha police. His sister, Letetra Widman, spoke to the media in Kenosha on August ...

Tennis champ halts tournament in protest over police shooting

Editor’s note: Professional tennis player Naomi Osaka, who is ranked No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association and the first Asian player to ...

California teens start ‘No Cop Money’ campaign

“I am 18 and I live in southern California. After the initial wave of protests, one of my twitter mutuals in New York started ...

Chicago school board disses youth, votes to keep cops in schools

The board of the Chicago Public Schools voted on August 26 to renew its district-level contract with the Chicago Police Department ...

The Breathe Act: A modern Civil Rights Act

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), composed of more than 50 Black-led organizations, including the Black Lives Matter Global ...

Labor Day, 2020: Essential workers fight for their lives in the era of Coronavirus

In the current crisis, workers who have been deemed “essential” are being abused by their employers and left unprotected by ...

Fired Amazon worker organizes workers during pandemic

Chris Smalls formed the Congress of Essential Workers with the vision of workers controlling their own destiny.

The fight for water

The People's Tribune hosts ongoing discussions with many of our communities, urban, rural and Native, across the country fawater crises. In bringing together

Medicare for All: Its time has come

"Each of us must be a hero for our communities, for our country. And then, with a compassionate, and intelligent president, we must ...

California is burning

California is seeing the largest fires in its history and it isn’t even peak fire season. Over three million acres have burned. The sky is ...

The Making of Trump Trauma

The humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border has demanded immediate action to stop the suffering that asylum seekers are ...

A fight for immigrant rights in Chicago

The People’s Tribune’s Bob Lee recently interviewed Antonio Gutierrez, a cofounder of the Chicago-based Organized Communities Against ...

Zooming to the border for human rights

A delegation of activists, researchers and independent journalists, sponsored by the People’s Tribune and our sister bilingual ...

Ronnie Goodman’s Short Life

He died age 60 August 7 2020 on the hard bricks at Capp and 16th in a homemade home

We grieve together

This artwork was created by Elizabeth Perez from approximately 1000 names, including many imprisoned people, who have ...

certain hungry ones

certain hungry ones
have the gift of
turning crumbs
into meals
and sharing them

certain hungry ones

certain hungry ones
have the gift of
turning crumbs
into meals
and sharing them

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